HA-LVM vs CLVM

[Mike Burger]

> Hello,
> I need to set up a simple failover scenario. The idea is to have two
> independent RHEL 5 systems on local disks, connected to a shared SAN.
> The application is all on the SAN. Only one node is ever running at a
> time. If the active node fails, the disk needs to be mounted on the
> passive node and the application started.
> Failover doesn't have to be fast or automatic, but it has to be simple
> and reliable.
> Depending on where I look, HA-LVM is sometimes recommended and other
> times it's CLVM. Looking at red hat cluster it seems HA-LVM is a bit
> overkill for my needs.
> Any suggestions or other options?

NFS?  If you've got an appliance, such as NetApp or something else that is
capable of hosting an NFS share, you could make use of NFS for this
purpose.


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